Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian Territory. A stubborn few could not be dislodged from Florida's swamps. Their descendants, some of whom intermarried with Negroes, now number nearly 600. Routed by whites from every desirable acre, they are now scattered deep in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan...
...Jewish] ban against Spain was not against the Spanish people but against the evil rulers of Spain in the 15th Century," ruled Poland's Rabbinate. "Therefore the boycott is no longer valid at present, when the Jews are treated like everyone else by the Spanish Government...
...Cambridge Police are on the job. They are stoutly determined that the evil element, so densely concentrated in Harvard, will not be allowed to enfold within its lecherous toils the virtuous maidens of Cambridge. Harvard men are not to be trusted one inch and the slightest suspicion is to be acted upon with vigour. Recently they showed not only the ability, but the inclination to practice their prerogatives in curbing the vice that is flourishing...
...well aware of the possible answer that these men saw that I was just another student and that there was no serious danger of assassination. But supposing that I had been merely disguised as a student and that I had had evil intentions. I saw the situation clearly and it would have been impossible for anyone to have stopped me before it was too late. Of course I would have been captured, maybe mobbed: but what does that matter to anyone who sincerely feels that the President of the United States has lived long enough...
...dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than any communistic agitation, is the greatest existing menace to democracy and free capitalism...